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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science has announced Gabe Newell will be the 17th inductee into the AIAS Hall of Fame. Valve’s co-founder and president will also headline the D.I.C.E. 2013 Summit stage as Thursday conference keynote speaker.

Half-Life and Awesomenauts skins will be included in Skin Pack 3 for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. According to playxbla, the pack is listed “coming soon”, but in lieu of a date, the blog posted shots of the skins to keep you placated.

Black Mesa Source – the long awaited Half-life fan remake – will not feature any of the Xen sections of the previous game. The developers have explained that the scenes were cut as they are being expanded.

Let’s try this again. You’re turning on the internet and you just want to know what you missed overnight very quickly. This, hopefully, is the solution. Listen to Brenna and Pat talk for a few minutes about what happened while you were asleep.

After a lengthy period of silence, the development team behind the fan-made Half-Life remake “Black Mesa” has promised some “exciting new media” when the Black Mesa Facebook fan page reaches 20,000 ‘Likes’.

Kotaku‘s got a small gallery of images reportedly pulled from the Counter-strike: Global Offensive beta, which purportedly reference Half-life, among other Valve games. Before you get too excited, Steam forum users have known about these for a while, and haven’t uncovered an AR puzzle or any concrete teases, so it seems Valve may just be […]

As with everything related to the perennial whisper-fest that is Half-Life’s release schedule, take the following with a medically appropriate amount of salt. About a kilo, I’d say. [Update] Yep, it’s bollocks.

Most Wednesdays the (virtual) office resounds with cries of “hooray hump day”, but this week, we’re too busy prepping for E3 to do more than shudder in fear, and give a cursory glance at these tasty nibbles.

If you’re wondering where Half-Life 2 episode 3 is, Brad Wardell thinks he may have the answer for you. The Stardock founder and CEO recently told Industry Gamers that, with Steam, Valve may be a victim of its own success.

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After a lengthy period of silence, the development team behind the fan-made Half-Life remake “Black Mesa” has promised some “exciting new media” when the Black Mesa Facebook fan page reaches 20,000 ‘Likes’.

Kotaku‘s got a small gallery of images reportedly pulled from the Counter-strike: Global Offensive beta, which purportedly reference Half-life, among other Valve games. Before you get too excited, Steam forum users have known about these for a while, and haven’t uncovered an AR puzzle or any concrete teases, so it seems Valve may just be […]

As with everything related to the perennial whisper-fest that is Half-Life’s release schedule, take the following with a medically appropriate amount of salt. About a kilo, I’d say. [Update] Yep, it’s bollocks.

Most Wednesdays the (virtual) office resounds with cries of “hooray hump day”, but this week, we’re too busy prepping for E3 to do more than shudder in fear, and give a cursory glance at these tasty nibbles.

If you’re wondering where Half-Life 2 episode 3 is, Brad Wardell thinks he may have the answer for you. The Stardock founder and CEO recently told Industry Gamers that, with Steam, Valve may be a victim of its own success.

If the YouTube counter is anything to go by, you’ve probably already seen Beyond Black Mesa, the Half-life fan film. In which case you probably want to watch it again – or you’re sadly behind the times. Everybody through the jump!

In celebration of Gordon Freeman being named “All Time Greatest Game Hero” by 55.8 percent of voters on Gamespot, Steam has but the Half-Life series on sale this weekend. For 55.8 percent off. Mosey on over and get yourself some head crab. That didn’t sound right.

Folks who play the Orange Box via Steam will get an engine update next time they log in. The specific changes include: Updated the engine to report SteamIDs using the Steam_0 format instead of Steam_1 Fixed problems in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, and Source mods running the current Orange Box engine Reverted the change […]

Valve’s Doug Lombardi has shocked precisely no one while delighting precisely everyone by confirming there are more Portal-based games on the way “There’ll be more Portal, for sure. But the details of that, to be honest, we’re still working out,” he told EG. “The only smart thing we did for Portal was to hire those […]